Re: multimedia/vlc: suddenly no graphical interface

On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:46:28 +0100
"O. Hartmann" <ohartman_at_mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> On all of my used FreeBSD 9.0-RCX and FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT boxes (all
> amd64 and CLANG compiled), I do not have a graphical user interface in
> VLC anymore. Instead, calling vlc most recent 1.1.11), I get this error:
> 
> VLC media player 1.1.11 The Luggage (revision exported)
> Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
> Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
> [0x8020521b0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use
> 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
> [0x80205ad70] main interface error: option qt-volume-complete does not exist
> [0x80205ad70] skins2 interface error: no suitable dialogs provider found
> (hint: compile the qt4 plugin, and make sure it is loaded properly)
> [0x80205ad70] skins2 interface error: cannot instanciate qt4 dialogs
> provider
> [0x8020521b0] main libvlc error: interface "default" initialization failed
> 
> 
> Recompiling the multimedia/vlc port did not help, also unsuccessful was
> the recompilation of any qt4-port installed on the system. I also tried
> to find the local configuration files in my home directory and delete
> them, without any success.
> 
> Is there something wrong with the DBUS subsystem named in the error?
> 

No, this is what I seea and my GUI works:

VLC media player 1.1.5 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
Blocked: call to setlocale(0, "")
Blocked: call to sigaction(20, 0x7fffff9fbcb0, 0x7fffff9fbcd0)
[0x801c86b70] qt4 interface error: Unable to load extensions module
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Blocked: call to sigaction(20, 0x7fffffffd5e0, 0x7fffffffd600)
Blocked: call to sigaction(20, 0x7fffffffd600, 0x0)

The version of vlc which I'm using:

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Sep  5 14:03 /var/db/pkg/vlc-1.1.5,3

-- 
Gary Jennejohn